I should have written this post when we got home from the Devils game Friday night, when the memory was still fresh. Before we spent much of the next two days negotiating with Ryan over all manner of behaviors: Wishing he would come outside and join his cousins in the pool Watching him explode every […]
Read more "This Is What Happiness Looks Like"Sometimes, simple plans are best. It’s a lesson we have learned over the years as we have seen ambitious vacation plans crumble into disaster. There was the week at the lake house where Ryan barely slept and was bored and when it rained. The trip to Hershey Park where none of us except Riley slept […]
Read more "Memorial Day"Like a lot of kids on the autism spectrum, creativity is not exactly Ryan’s strong suit. When he was a toddler we watched him like a hawk, hoping to see signs of imaginative play emerge. He liked to play with toy cars. All right, he liked to line up toy cars. We tried to expand […]
Read more "What’s In a Nickname"I wish I’d been able to post this on Monday, but WordPress and I were not getting along. Way back on Monday, you know, twenty-four whole hours ago, I was busy writing a post about the wonderful weekend I’d spent with Ryan road-tripping to Washington for a Capitals playoff game. My heart was heavy then, […]
Read more "Road Trip!"Today’s post is delayed on account of the fact that WordPress sort of ate it. But this weekend was too special — 36 glorious hours of one-on-one time with Ryan, all centered around playoff hockey — to not share in greater detail. Until I can properly do so on Tuesday, I’ll leave you with this […]
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Pucks and Puzzle Pieces 